Prisoners After War : Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration

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dc.contributor.authorHiggins, Jason A.en
dc.coverage.countryUnited Statesen
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-07T17:42:02Zen
dc.date.available2024-03-07T17:42:02Zen
dc.date.issued2024-03en
dc.description.abstractThe United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral system in the history of the world. Since the American War in Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of veterans have been incarcerated after their military service. Identifying the previously unrecognized connections between American wars and mass incarceration, Prisoners after War reaches across lines of race, class, and gender to record the untold history of incarcerated veterans over the past six decades. Having conducted dozens of oral history interviews, Jason A. Higgins traces the lifelong effects of war, inequality, disability, and mental illness, and explores why hundreds of thousands of veterans, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, were caught up in the carceral system. This original study tells an intergenerational history of state-sanctioned violence, punishment, and inequality, but its pages also resonate with stories of survival and redemption, revealing future possibilities for reform and reparative justice.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Virginia Tech. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.en
dc.description.tableofcontentsLocating Incarcerated Veterans in American History -- "Less Than" Veterans -- War, Drugs, and the War on Drugs -- Another War, Another Drug : Military-Carceral State in the Reagan Era -- Leave No Vet Behind : Memory of the Vietnam War and the Foundation of Veterans Treatment Court -- Generation 9/11 : Incarcerated Veterans of the Global War on Terrorism -- Another Signature Wound : Substance Use Disorder and the Opioid Epidemic -- "Justice For Vets" : A New Veterans' Movement -- . . . And Justice For All : Women and Families of Veterans Treatment Court -- No Peace, No Justice.en
dc.format.extentxxiv, 267 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.isbn9781685750367en
dc.identifier.oclc1374114229en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/118296en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Massachusetts Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVeteransen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en
dc.subject.ddc362.860973en
dc.subject.lccUB357 .H53 2024en
dc.subject.lcshVeterans -- United States -- Social conditionsen
dc.subject.lcshPrisoners -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshVeteran reintegration -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshVeterans -- Mental health -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshCriminal justice, Administration of -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshAlternatives to imprisonment -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshMarginality, Social -- United Statesen
dc.titlePrisoners After War : Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarcerationen
dc.typeBooken
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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